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SEE: Max Cooper – ‘Spike’: beautiful visuals for pulsing IDM
IN CASE you haven’t entered its fascinating, layered, granular, beautiful world yet, rest assured that Max Cooper’s Earth EP is one of the absolute highlights of IDM in 2020: what is, in the most reductive sense, a four-track techno 12″ is in fact an exercise in irresistible groove, synaesthesic sound sculpture, enthralling film collaborations – …
SEE: Black Country, New Road – ‘Science Fair’: a potent experimental tale
AFTER an agonisingly lengthy wait, South London experimental rock group Black Country, New Road have finally released a new single, bearing word of a debut album set to be released next February. Having burst onto the scene in January last year with debut single “Athens, France”, released on acclaimed label Speedy Wunderground, and following it …
SEE: Bastien Keb releases a video for the bone-chill beauty of ‘Rabbit Hole’
RIGHT. First things first, and full disclosure: we adore Bastien Keb over here at Backseat Mafia. His latest album, The Killing Of Eugene Peeps, is so brilliantly eclectic, multifaceted, genre-busting, that we’re running out of superlatives for it. It weaves together chilling. beautiful acoustic tunes, the best of Italian soundtrack jazz (Nicola Conte, Piero Piccioni), …
SEE: The short film for Big Ideas’ ‘American Dream’: rolling with the punches as society is riven
TENNESSEE-born Nathan Nicholson and Londoner Adam Harrison may be better known to readers as members of widescreen alt.rock outfit The Boxer Rebellion, responsible for big-hearted tunes such as “Diamonds”. Now the duo are embarking on a new chapter in collaboration with writer, director and photographer Ben Lankester to launch a new multi-disciplinary and creative three-piece, …
SEE: Ailsa Tully’s ‘Drive’: sweet bass-driven folk-pop from the Welsh borders
DALLIANCE RECORDINGS, the boutique label that’s already garnered the loveliness of Gia Margaret and Common Holly to its hearthside, has hit a triple score on singer-songwriters by adding Welsh border country talent Ailsa Tully to its roster. Ailsa’s been plying her line in confessional pop a little while now – you may have been lucky …
SEE: XIXA – ‘May They Call Us Home’: where desert rock meets cumbia
COMING atcha suited and booted, dusty with the long ride in from Tucson, AZ, XIXA have released the second single from their forthcoming album, “May They Call Us Home”. You can watch the video herein. The video was directed by the amazing photographer Charlie Stout and stars fellow traveller across the wide-open landscapes of the borderland …
SEE: Johanna Burnheart – ‘Silence Is Golden’: where jazz meets tUnE-yArDs
JOHANNA BURNHEART is something of a rarity in the jazz sphere, as her aural device of choice is the violin. She is, you could perhaps say, sat inside a niche inside a niche, looking out. Of course, observing from such a vantage point can give you perspective, a way of seeing things anew; as you …
Premiere: Marta Ren releases video for the deep funk of ’22:22′
PORTUGUESE soul sister Marta Ren released her new single, “22:22”, last week; and has followed it with visuals which we’re delighted to premiere right here today on Backseat Mafia. She’s been fashioning tastily deep grooves since the 1990s, when she was a member of The Bombazines, but she burst on the soul scene in her …
TRACK: Citrus Clouds – ‘Whoa’: another great shoegaze drop from Arizona
HERE at Backseat Mafia, being the old shoegazers that we are, we have an awful lot of love for Arizona’s Citrus Clouds, who know how a guitar can soar to heaven when caressed correctly. That name? It’s for the majestic sunsets the band – bassist and singer Stacie Huttleston, singer-guitarist Erick Pineda and drummer Angelica …
SEE: Tele Novella – ‘Technicolor Town’: ramshackle and beautiful Texan alt.country
COMING atcha outta Austin, Texas, Tele Novella is currently the duo of vintage shop-owner Natalie Ribbons and Jason Chronis, who collects rare records. Tele Novella arose from the ashes of other musical projects they were involved deep down in Texas: Agent Ribbons, Voxtrot, Belaire. When they met they knew they could fashion something pretty special. Self-described as “medieval …